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...UCLA. There's also a poodle named Platinum, a pug named Egor and a greyhound named Aladdin--not to mention the eight golden retrievers, four black Labs, two German shepherds and several mutts. Canine candy-striping--which began in the 1980s as just another recreational activity for patients, like clown visits to children's hospitals or barbershop-quartet appearances at nursing homes--has evolved into an important and fast-growing component of modern patient care...
...kingpin” in one of the all-boy, 11-to-13-year-old classes I teach for HARMONY. We call the ringleaders in any given class the “kingpin”—usually male, he’s the class clown who doesn't know any of the answers but somehow manages to talk all of the time, distracting the other children from the lesson and making an hour-long class seem like it will never end. My silver-chain wearing, Eminem-reciting, classical-music-is-only-for-white-people kingpin informed me one sticky...
...minute number for a TV show. Bello when he's not performing is a lot like Bello when he is--wide-eyed, charged with energy. We never actually did the gig--the schedule didn't work out or something--but I'll pay him these compliments, from one clown to another: first, I had a great time--Bello is one of the sunniest and most generous men I've ever known. Essentially I was just there that day as a comic feed, and elder statesman, to feature some of his trampoline business, but I didn't want to be blown...
...Bello Nock a "clown's clown"? That's a hard one, because--this little essay notwithstanding--clowns tend not really to talk about one another too much. But if you get past the unanswerable questions like, Who's the best? or Who's the funniest? or Whose gig would you most like to have? and you just ask, Whom do you like to go see? then it gets easier. There are only a few clowns I love to see again and again, and Bello Nock is one of them. He's really, really good, and he has a really good...
Bill Irwin is an actor, choreographer, director, performance artist, playwright and clown. He won a MacArthur "genius award...